Last week at the OpenGovHub- the Accountability Lab’s home- we listened to two heavyweights in the fight against corruption: Frank Vogl, Co-founder of both Transparency International and The Partnership for Transparency Fund; and…

The Global Mechanism  of the UNCCD has unveiled a fully revamped web-based platform to facilitate the exchange of information among African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries as part of its scope|acp project, a South-South cooperation programme. The virtual network – for use by government representatives, civil society organizations (CSOs) and development professionals – hosts a wealth of information on funding and finance for sustainable land management (SLM) and is accessible to…

Analysis of the Discourse and Background of the ProSAVANA Programme in Mozambique – focusing on Japan’s role

This paper examines the much debated characteristics and background of the “Triangular Cooperation for Agricultural Development of the Tropical Savannah in Mozambique, namely, ProSAVANA – JBM”, signed jointly by the governments of Japan, Brazil, and Mozambique in 2009. This paper seeks to analyse the discourse and the arguments observed in public

documents and discussions…

Spending time on the ground in countries like Liberia and Nepal, it soon becomes clear that despite good intentions, we still have very little idea how best to support the accountability of power-holders to citizens. There are hundreds of organizations working on corruption, transparency and accountability (words which…

E-governance initiatives, heavily touted as the ICT revolution took off in the past decade, have generally not lived up to expectations or functioned as effectively as hoped by many citizens. A number of these initiatives famously drew in significant amounts of public funds but produced online systems that were difficult to use, over-priced and based on clunky back-end architectures. Many of those projects that did work were not so much examples of e-governance as “i-government”- through…

E-governance initiatives, heavily touted as the ICT revolution took off in the past decade, have generally not lived up to expectations or functioned as effectively as hoped by many citizens. A number of these initiatives famously drew in significant amounts of public funds but produced online systems that were difficult to use, over-priced and based on clunky back-end architectures. Many of those projects that did work were not so much examples of e-governance as “i-government”- through…

Con acuerdos de cooperación birregional Celac y UE clausuraron cumbre

28 de enero de 2013.- Representantes de la Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (Celac) y la Unión Europea (UE), en la clausura de la primera cumbre entre ambos organismos en Chile, aprobaron la Declaración de Santiago y el Plan de acción 2013-2014 donde se destaca la reafirmación del compromiso con el multilateralismo y el respeto a los principios de la Carta de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU).

En…

La cooperación internacional es un campo muy importante, no solo para las personas que viven en países donantes, sino también para las personas que se vuelven beneficiarios de esa ayuda, es decir las personas que viven en países en vías de desarrollo, es por ello que en la Escuela de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de El Salvador  se creó un espacio en el cual estudiantes, docentes, representantes de organizaciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales pudieran participar. Lo…

El 4 de diciembre de 2012, se realizó la clausura de la Cátedra libre de Cooperación Internacional, organizada por la Escuela de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de El Salvador. A través de este espacio innovador […

Over the past few months I have recurrently thought about this issue and I don't know what to do.

In March 2012 the Building Block on South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) launched in Busan held its first meeting in Brussels (see http://www.southsouth.info/BB-Brusselsmeeting ). Close to 150 people from developing and donor countries, international and regional institutions and civil society organizations met to launch…

Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women and WFP

4 February 2013

New York

Leveraging South-South cooperation and triangular cooperation

http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/resources/wfp254102.pdf

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Reunión conjunta de las Juntas Ejecutivas…

Conference Volume Prepared for the Global South-South Development Expo 2012

http://jica-ri.jica.go.jp/publication/assets/JICA-RI_2012_ScalingUpSouthSouthAndTriangularCooperation-v2.pdf

Preface

With the Busan High Level Forum behind us and with just two years ahead of us until the 2015 MDG target year, all around we…

We recently published a new Results Story to the SSKE Portal which talks about how ICT is being used to help farmers in Indonesia learn about, among other things, weather patterns and commodity prices from their colleagues in India.

We recently published a new Results Story to the SSKE Portal talking about how ICT is being used to help farmers in…

We uploaded a new results story to the SSKE Portal yesterday which talks about how practitioners in the Philippines were connected with Mexican officials to help reform the Philippine’s health care system. You should check it out!

Poor households in the Philippines lack access to health care and proper financial protection against high out-of-pocket health expenses. The government has made universal health care a priority to…

Con la finalización de una serie de cátedras efectuadas en El Salvador, en la Universidad de El Salvador, con el propósito de crear debate, intercambiar experiencias, así como también buscar posibles soluciones y oportunidades en materia de cooperación internacional, desde diferentes puntos de vista y con diferentes actores que emergen en la actualidad, se plantea la necesidad de restructurar la lógica de la cooperación.

A lo largo de este proceso llamado cátedra de cooperación…

Transparency has frequently been cited as a cure to corruption. Freedom of information has been declared a universal human right, with over 70 countries adopting it as such to date.

However, as Albert Einstein once said, “Not everything that counts can be measured and not everything that can be measured counts.” As more and more governments are becoming transparent, we must…

Live learning improving e-learning in agricultural education system

“A good educational system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to share what they know and to find those who want to learn it from them; and, furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge…

Como parte de la dinámica al desarrollar la Cátedra Libre de Cooperación en la Escuela de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de El Salvador; como una primera experiencia, se tuvo a bien finalmente hacer un balance total sobre las temáticas a fin de encontrar nuevas luces hacia lo que será la Cátedra en su próxima fase durante el 2013.…

Integration & Trade Journal (2013)

The rapid and sustained economic growth seen in many developing countries over the last decade has enabled them to emerge as international…